by Massive Voodoo

Hello,

with this text I want to
introduce myself , the person who stands behind the nickname HonourGuard. I
will give you some information about me and about my point of views to this
beautiful hobby.

My Name is Oliver Spaeth, I
was born in 1991 and I live in Aichwald a little village in the South of
Germany. Beside the painting I like to make sports, especially running, but
also biking and snowboarding and I like to spend time, with my family, friends
or with my girlfriend. I am a big fan of watching good movies in the cinema or
at home and of reading historical novels and fantasy books. I think
this is the quite and relaxed opposite to my other hobbies, painting, which
needs a lot of concentration and of running which can be very energy-sapping,
too.

I have been painting
miniatures for a really long time now and I am still fascinated of this little
figures. It started all when I bought the Fellowship of the Ringmovie on DVD in the year 2002. You must know
I really felt in love with the LotR movie, with all this different creatures
and races, the beautiful fantasy world and the various characters. This opened
the eyes of a 11 year old boy to the world of fantasy and creativity. Inside
the DVD box, there was a paper with advertisement for Lord of the Rings articles.
There was a picture ofthe starter box of the tabletop game from
Games Workshop and I still remember how I asked my parents what miniatures are?
I just couldn't imagine it rightly. I think you can guess how the story
continued.

For the next years I
painted really many miniatures and I have spendthe most of my pocket money to Games Workshop. "Many
miniatures" means about 700 figures, that I have painted for gaming with a
friend, nothing special I just wanted to have a nice army on table. But I already
started to try to receive better painting results on my hero models.

In the year 2007 I visited
my first miniature convention, the MAC,together with my Dad, who always supported me with good feedback and
travels to figure events (in the following years). Right on the Expo I was
really impressed of all this great painted miniatures I saw on this event. I
never imagined that it could be possible to paint on such a high level in this
small scale. Since this day, I wanted to improve my painting skills, because I
wanted to create my own little worlds and characters on a high artistic level.
With the help of the internet, painting sites, forums, workshops, feedback from
other painters and especially with nearly daily painting, I could improve my
painting a bit. The good in our hobby is you never learn out, there are so many
things to learn and thousand possibilities to create fantastic little pieces of
art. I think this is a part because I love this hobby, too, it has so many
different aspects like sculpting, building bases, color choices, different
scales, single models or dioramas, busts or flats, fantasy or historical
miniatures.

For now,I feel like I just started painting, I still
try to improve my painting and to expand my horizon in this hobby. And just
enjoy this hobby, visit figure events, talk with hobby friends and paint a lot
of great miniatures. There are so many more outstanding sculpts on the market,
which I would like to paint in the future. I just discovered historical
miniatures for me, too.

I usually paint miniatures
just for fun, competitions and for my private collection, without any goals of
sell them. But if you are interested in buying one of my figures, want a
promotion paintjob on a new modelor
just want to give me a feedback you can contact me on this email adress:

honourguard@web.de

Beside Massive Voodoo, I
have a painting page on facebook, where I show my latest projects and WIP
pictures:

Comments:

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MV-Team: Oli

Hi Oli,very interesting history. Thanks for sharing ;) It is funny. I also started painting via LOTR two years later. AND the MAC in 2007 was my first competition as well. If am right, we even entered the MP and BFcommunity at about the same time. To be honest I am somewhat jealous of how fast you improved your skills. I am really a big fan of your style and love the stories you tell. Keep up your great work. Can't wait to see your next masterpiece!!!

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